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Rasaraṅgamaṇi · Paccīsī poem 25

The Couple’s splendid water-play

Unit 25 of 28 · printed source page 18–19

Original · Devanagari

॥ कवित्त घनाक्षरी ॥ अति बिस्तार को हितरनी तयार तंत्र्यो मारके अगार ज्यों बितान जरतार है। सजिकै सिंगार परोपरिकर प्यार जुगलछवि अनुसार रचै कालि नटसार है॥ रंगमणि हार देवै चरित उदार हैं। वारिमे बिहारी सिया कोमल कुमारकी सरजूके धारकी बिलोकत बहार हैं॥ २५ ॥ इति श्री सीताराम झूलाविलास पचीसी सम्पूर्णम्॥

Fresh English translation

Kavitt in the ghanakshari metre: An expansive arrangement has been prepared, stretched like a gold-embroidered canopy over Love’s palace. Adorned with ornaments and mutual affection, the scene is fashioned to accord with the Couple’s beauty, as though by the master of dramatic art. Rangamani offers this garland of their generous deeds: behold the splendour of tender Sia and her youthful Lord sporting in the waters and currents of Sarayu. Thus ends the twenty-five poems of Shri Sitaram Jhula-vilasa.